Microsoft releases fix for Windows 7 MP3 corruption issue
Microsoft warned that there was a serious MP3 corruption issue in the Windows 7 beta (build 7000), which has been making the rounds on piracy networks. The company promised a fix, and it has now arrived. Regardless of where you got the beta from, I strongly recommend that you download and install this patch:
Install this update to resolve live and recorded TV issues in Windows Media Center, recorded TV playback issues in Windows Media Player, and MP3 file corruption issues in Windows. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows 7 Pre-Release License Terms.
As you can see, Microsoft took the opportunity to fix other issues in the beta with this patch. Still, the most critical of the issues fixed was MP3 corruption. Here's how the corruption occurs: the first few seconds of an MP3 file will be cut if the header of the mp3 file is larger than 16 kilobytes and if metadata is written to the file. The corruption will occur either when the user edits the metadata from inside WMP12 or Explorer, or if WMP12 is set to automatically fill in missing metadata using the online service. The changes are irreversible, so make sure to install this patch before you play back any of your MP3s.
This is probably the most serious bug that has been discovered in the Windows 7 beta, and it's a good thing that it was, because Microsoft is about to give it out to the public in a couple of hours.
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List of all Windows 7 Beta 1 Keys released by Microsoft!!!
After refreshing the Windows 7 Customer Improvement Program page a plethora of times, I found that after the site released 5 keys of each architecture to me, it began to repeat the same ones, as if these are the only keys that Microsoft is distributing for this release. I would imagine that these keys can be used an infinite amount of times since there are only ten different keys total that Microsoft made. I'm not positive about that yet though. I'll test it out and get back to you on it. In the meantime, here are those keys!:
32-bit:
6JKV2-QPB8H-RQ893-FW7TM-PBJ73
4HJRK-X6Q28-HWRFY-WDYHJ-K8HDH
QXV7B-K78W2-QGPR6-9FWH9-KGMM7
TQ32R-WFBDM-GFHD2-QGVMH-3P9GC
GG4MQ-MGK72-HVXFW-KHCRF-KW6KY
CRJ8X-Q3D3G-V6T98-HMX62-2W3KX (thanks to AFM)
XGD8W-B6WBM-8FDJ2-R43TQ-XP3KM (thanks to AFM)